Sleep is pain's easiest salve

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.